Thripoctenus javae (Girault)

Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, Zootaxa 3957 (1), pp. 1-36 : 26-27

120. Thripoctenus javae (Girault)

Material examined. 1 ♂, Israel, Ga’ton, ex. Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (Bouché) on Avocado ( Persea americana ), 1996 (W. Kuslitsky) det. Kuslitsky as Thripobius semiluteus Bouček ( PPIS); 16 ♀, 2 ♂, Ga’ton, ex. H. haemorrhoidalis on avocado, 24.viii.1997 (W. Kuslitsky) det. Kuslitsky as Thripobius semiluteus Bouček ( PPIS); 4 ♀, 1 ♂, Rehovot, Coastal Plain, ex. Viburnum tinus , 01.ix.1997 (W. Kuslitsky) det. Kuslitsky as Thripobius semiluteus Bouček ( PPIS); 4 ♀, Rehovot, ex. H. haemorrhoidalis on Viburnum tinus , 10.v.2013 (W. Kuslitsky).

Hosts. Endoparasitoid of Coccoidea sp. ( Hemiptera ) ( Triapitsyn, 2005) and Brachythrips sp., Heliothrips sp., Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (Bouché) , Sigmothrips aotearoana Ward , Selenothrips rubrocinctus (Giard) , Panchaetothrips indicus Bagnall , Rhipiphorothrips cruentatus Hood, Thrips sp. ( Thysanoptera , Thripidae ) ( Bouček 1977, 1988; LaSalle & McMurtry 1989).

Distribution. Israel (Wysoky et al. 2000); cosmopolitan ( Noyes 2014).

Remarks. It was introduced under the syn. Thripobius semiluteus Bouček into Israel by M. Wysoky in 1991.